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SELinux System Administration - Second Edition

By : Sven Vermeulen
Book Image

SELinux System Administration - Second Edition

By: Sven Vermeulen

Overview of this book

Do you have the crucial job of protecting your private and company systems from malicious attacks and undefined application behavior? Are you looking to secure your Linux systems with improved access controls? Look no further, intrepid administrator! This book will show you how to enhance your system’s secure state across Linux distributions, helping you keep application vulnerabilities at bay. This book covers the core SELinux concepts and shows you how to leverage SELinux to improve the protection measures of a Linux system. You will learn the SELinux fundamentals and all of SELinux’s configuration handles including conditional policies, constraints, policy types, and audit capabilities. These topics are paired with genuine examples of situations and issues you may come across as an administrator. In addition, you will learn how to further harden the virtualization offering of both libvirt (sVirt) and Docker through SELinux. By the end of the book you will know how SELinux works and how you can tune it to meet your needs.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
SELinux System Administration - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Chapter 10. SELinux Use Cases

The previously described SELinux operational controls need to be aligned to suit administrators' goals and requirements. In this chapter, several cases will be described that will teach administrators to:

  • Harden web servers through SELinux category support and proper file labeling

  • Secure shell services through the separation of SSH instances and different PAM service usage of the SSH daemon

  • Configure the NFS server to deal with different SELinux file contexts and tune applications to use the NFS-exposed files

We'll end the chapter with a small comparison of Samba's SELinux implementation and the NFS configuration documented earlier.